As nouns the difference between bucolic and countryside
is that bucolic is a pastoral poem while countryside is a rural landscape.
As an adjective bucolic
is rustic, pastoral, country-styled.
bucolic
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .
Adjective
(
en adjective)
Rustic, pastoral, country-styled.
Pertaining to herdsmen or peasants.
Etymology 2
From (etyl)
Noun
(
en noun)
A pastoral poem.
A rustic, peasant
See also
* georgic
countryside
English
Noun
(
rural)
(en noun) (typically used with the definite article)
A rural landscape.
A rural area, or the rural part of a larger area, as in "the Swedish countryside."